Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/16/2011

Subject: According to the Court, the provisions of the Directive on the copyright impose to the Member State which has introduced the private copying exception into its national law an obligation to achieve a certain result, meaning that it must guarantee, within the framework of its competences, the effective recovery of the fair compensation intended to compensate the authors harmed by prejudice sustained, in particular if that harm arose on the territory of that Member State.

Parties: Stichting de Thuiskopie

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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